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Presence And Letting Go of Control

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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Thoughtless Is a Positive Thing

The world interprets not thinking as something negative, hence the word thoughtless. But here to be free of thought is to rise above thought and the world doesn't know much about that yet. The possibility that you can be very alert, very present, but not thinking. There's a space of pure awareness. It doesn't matter how long it lasts just now. A moment when you're not thinking, but you're not falling below thought, you're rising above thought. And this is a state out of which all knowing actually arises.

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